Timpani

In this film, the Vienna Philharmonic played Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World.” This piece displays the serenity of the new world, with violins and violas playing pizzicato to resemble trickling streams, the basses and cellos playing fortissimo in order to represent roaring rivers, and the brass playing in unison to signify the enormous, yet beautiful mountain ranges. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 contains four movements. The first movement is in sonata allegro form.…

Mark Debski Handel MHST 373 16 November 2016 Fauré Requiem French composer Gabriel Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, France on May 12, 1845 and died in Paris on November 4, 1924. Unlike most French composers, Fauré did not attend the Paris Conservatoire. Instead, from the age of nine, he attended the École Niedermeyer, where he studied with Camille Saint-Saëns. Despite not attending the Conservatoire, Fauré eventually became professor of composition there, and was then appointed Director…

a sacred frame, as he contrasted the loud and peaceful movements, and employed the use of militaristic imagery through the brass and percussion. For example, Berlioz included fanfare-like passages using thick brass voices and the extensive use of timpani to accentuate the rhythms in the Dies Irae (which would be described…

Beyond the Score: Dvorak Symphony No. 9: Whose World? inside the beautiful Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. Instrumentation included one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, triangle, symbols, violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Originally a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first half of the performance was intended to help concert goers (whether first – time or regular attender) meet and…

in style. Berlioz is creating a scene through music – one of a hellish underworld. Through this passage, triplets are tossed from the woodwinds to trumpets and back and forth, ending in the glissando. The drumrolls become gradually louder and the timpani play C and G pedal notes. The movement has now moved into the second prelude and into allegro. The original version of idée fixe was sweet and noble, however now – played on B flat clarinet – has transformed into a mocking, leering mask, leading…

Compare and Contrast Goldfinger (1964); Musical Score by John Barry vs Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Musical Score by John Williams During the 1960s, popular music played an important role in filmmaking, garnering larger audiences due to the appeal of this genre but also due to the fact that psychologically, people tend to associate the music they are hearing with real life events or emotions. From 1960-1967, film scores began to change. No longer would we see the traditions of the 50s, where…

First Selection: -Symphony No. 1 (“ Classical”), first movement- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) First Hearing: Happy, Calm Second Hearing: Prokofiev wanted to create a kind of the homage for the composers of the Classical era. I really like the sound of this song. It put me in a happy, calm mood. Third Hearing: The pitch starts off low. The melody is disjunct. The rhythm is duple meter. The tempo is a steadfast. The dynamic is widely varying levels at the beginning of the song. It increases…

The piece I chose that I believe speaks most about grace and mercy is movement five, “Und went die Welt doll Teufel war”. This movement was later added into this piece after it was finished along with movement one to add timpani and trumpets. In this movement, the choir sings in unison, and the trumpets all play similar parts, with the violins playing counterpoints. The violins play this joyful and freudig run of sixteenth notes throughout most of the movement, creating a vision of swirling…

basses. The woodwinds used within the work are a flute, an oboe, a clarinet, and a basson. The brass instruments used within the work include a trombone, a trumpet, and three horns. The percussion instruments used within the work include a triangle, timpani, tambourine, cymbals, castanets, a snare drum, and a bass drum. Many of the instruments…

and the cello. The brass instruments used in the Allegro ma non troppo, un poco Maestoso, or the first movement would include the horn and the trumpets, and from the percussion instrument group the only instrument that was seen being used was the timpani. The music in the first movement started of with a slower tempo, beginning with pianissimo-like sound made up of primarily woodwind instruments, reminding me almost like birds singing in the morning, to an intense, climatic fortissimo, while not…